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Fledgling credit bureau scheme aims to boost SME financing

SME finance is characterised by information asymmetries; a lack of credit information about SME borrowers and non-existence of SME-specific credit evaluation tools (more…)

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SME Bank plans to increase loan target in 2007

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) Bank hopes to increase the size of its approved loans to RM2.8bn next year from…


Factoring growth will come from SME demand, says Lublinski...

Romania's factoring industry holds significant growth potential as we enter the final weeks of 2006, according to Ryszard Lublinski, general…


Mongolian banks receive SME loan boost from Japan

The Ministry of Finance announced Monday that an earlier discussed project where by a Japanese bank would support Mongolian banks…

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SME business confidence index improved in October

The business confidence index for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was 40.4%, up by 4 percentage points in October (more…)

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Kookmin focuses on structured SME financing

To meet the capital needs of small firms, which often have short credit histories and insufficient financial data, banks need…


METI plans SME loans without a personal guarantor

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce as early as next spring a new type of loan…


EDC invests in venture debt fund to benefit SME...

Export Development Canada (EDC) announced that it has invested CAD10m (US$8.78m) in the WF Fund III Limited Partnership, a CAD$125m…

#commercial financing#emerging markets#exporters


Worsening economic outlook knocks SME confidence

Sentiment among Hungarian small- and medium-sized enterprise managers deteriorated in Q3 2006, because of a worsening assessment of the country's…


Sultan Allana of IPDC speaks of securitisation and SME...

Sultan Allana (SA), director of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (Akfed) that currently holds 68% of the shares…


USD30 m loan for Bank St. Petersburg to boost...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to lend US$30m to Bank St. Petersburg in a transaction…


Citigroup to double SME lending in 3 years

Citigroup plans to double its small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) credit portfolio in India in three years. The plan would…

Santander Banespa reserves US$451m for SME lending in Q4

Brazil's fourth largest private sector bank Santander Banespa expects to lend 1bn reais (US$451m) to SMEs before the end of…

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